short motion picture

  • 41short — ʃɔrt /ʃɔːt n. short circuit, malfunction of a circuit caused by an unintentional low resistance connection (Electricity); main point; motion picture of less than 30 minutes (Slang); shot, small drink of liquor (British) adj. not long,… …

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  • 42motion pictures —    Thomas A. Edison s 1887 invention of the kinetoscope drew upon ideas and inventions from numerous sources, and other inventors rapidly explored the creative possibilities of the new medium of moving pictures. Many actors in the legitimate… …

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  • 43short story — short story, adj. a piece of prose fiction, usually under 10,000 words. [1885 90] * * * Brief fictional prose narrative. It usually presents a single significant episode or scene involving a limited number of characters. The form encourages… …

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  • 44Motion JPEG — In multimedia, Motion JPEG (M JPEG) is an informal name for a class of video formats where each video frame or interlaced field of a digital video sequence is separately compressed as a JPEG image. Originally developed for multimedia PC… …

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  • 45Academy Award for Best Picture — Best Picture redirects here. For other uses, see Best Picture (disambiguation). Academy Award for Best Picture Awarded for Best Picture of the Year Presented by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Country United States …

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  • 46Stop motion — (or frame by frame) animation is an animation technique to make a physically manipulated object appear to move on its own. The object is moved by small amounts between individually photographed frames, creating the illusion of movement when the… …

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  • 47Columbus Short — Short at WonderCon 2010 Born Columbus Keith Short Jr. September 19, 1982 (age 29) Kansas City, Missouri, United States …

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  • 48Slow motion — This article is about the filmmaking effect. For other uses, see Slow Motion (disambiguation). Slow motion (commonly abbreviated as slowmo) is an effect in film making whereby time appears to be slowed down. It was invented by the Austrian priest …

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  • 49moving picture — noun a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement they went to a movie every Saturday night the film was shot on location • Syn: ↑movie, ↑film, ↑picture, ↑moving picture… …

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  • 50moving-picture show — noun a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement they went to a movie every Saturday night the film was shot on location • Syn: ↑movie, ↑film, ↑picture, ↑moving picture …

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